Scott Downs

The “ghost of Harry Caray” appeared during the 1998 wild-card tiebreaker game against the Giants at Wrigley Field when some fans walked up and down Waveland and Sheffield Avenues with a giant balloon of Caray’s face. Seventeen years later, some fans are asking the Cubs to bring the spirit of Harry Caray back to Wrigley now that they have the jumbo-sized video board at their disposal. On opening day, Daily Herald columnist and WSCR-AM 670 personality Barry Rozner first proposed the idea of using classics videos of Caray singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” on the video board. On Wednesday, the “Waddle and Silvy” show on WMVP-AM 1000 took...

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